WATER TABLE DEPRESSION UNDER TREED AREAS AND SWELL SUBSEQUENT TO FELLING

Two cases are described where trees have lowered the water table by several metres over an extensive area. The fact that the water table has been depressed and is likely to rise once the trees are removed is not always obvious. The consequences of restablishment of the water table over an extensive area are examined. (Author/TRRL)

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Expansive Soils, Adelaide, South Australia, 21-23 May, 1984.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institution of Engineers

  11 National Circuit
  Barton, A.C.T.,   Australia 
• Authors:
  • BLIGHT, G E
  • Lyell, K A
• Conference:
  • Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Expansive Soils, Adelaide, South Australia, 21-23 May, 1984.
• Publication Date: 1984

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 245-249
• Serial:
  • Issue Number: 84/3

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Compressibility; Conferences; Drawdown; Lowering; Mechanical equilibrium; Soil suction; Swelling; Swelling soils; Trees; Vegetation; Water table
• Old TRIS Terms: Soil swell
• ITRD Terms: 5905: Compressibility; 8525: Conference; 7145: Equilibrium; 4395: Lowering (water table); 5771: Suction; 5203: Swelling (soil); 2488: Vegetation
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00389705
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 0-85825-219-8
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 29 1985 12:00AM